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Halifax, NS

• Lead project teams of internal stakeholders and external consultants through RFP development, design, tender, construction and commissioning of dams, reservoirs, booster stations and linear water infrastructure projects.
• Lead project teams of internal stakeholders and external consultants through master planning development for the water distribution system including modeling, feasibility, and concept options.
• Perform condition assessments and develop recommendations for future capital work including rehabilitation or replacement of the existing asset.
• Perform inhouse design for water main renewal projects including concept design, planning, project approvals,
• Developed a cost database of historical pricing for linear infrastructure projects for use in capital budget planning.
• Developed and enhanced Halifax Water’s dam safety management program through policy development, OMS, ERP and EPP documents for high-risk critical infrastructure.

Halifax, Canada Area

• Manage team of consultants to produce construction drawings and specifications for civil land development, commercial, residential, institutional and recreational design-build projects.
• Perform reviews of sub-contractor tender packages to ensure completeness, liaise with client to ensure design stays within project budget and follows sub-contractor procurement schedule to maintain construction.
• Assist in the development of processes to streamline the pre-construction phase of projects.
• Create a flexible project design brief checklist to identify site, structural, architectural, mechanical and electrical requirements on various construction projects.
• Assemble and manage consultant teams to determine preliminary project requirements and participate in the creation of design-build proposals.
• Advise clients on due diligence process for land purchases agreements including topographical survey, legal survey, geotechnical investigations, and environmental site assessments.

Halifax, Canada Area

• Assisted project manager and on site supervisor with coordination of daily and future site activities.
• Developed and monitored project schedules in MS Project and Primavera formats to advise management team on project status.
• Compiled, reviewed and submitted all LEED related documents on six construction projects.
• Assisted project manager with writing scopes of work for sub-trade tenders, contract award, managing change requests/orders and purchase orders.
• Perform site inspections to ensure adherence to occupational health and safety regulations and company policy.
• Onsite supervision of multiple sub-contractors to ensure work was completed safely, on schedule, on budget and to project specifications and drawings.

Bedford, NS

• Assisted project manager with onsite supervision and coordination of daily site activities for demolition, site development and civil infrastructure projects.
• Performed quantity take offs, ordering materials, ensuring delivery and maintaining inventory.
• Developed earned value cost tracking and reporting system using MS Project.
• Developed methods to track and analyze productivity rates for a wide variety of self-performed construction activities and summarized findings in annual reports to senior management and estimating department.
• Managed team of 6-8 engineering students and full time staff to perform cost analysis and reported to senior management on a variety of civil construction projects totaling $80-$100 million annually.

Bachelor'S Degree, Civil Engineering

Diploma, Engineering